Mobile Art Monday No. 6

I fell in love with the houses that Tricia Dewey created the past couple months and through a group on Face book had access to a little insight as to which apps she used. She left just enough gaps to keep me guessing and experimenting on my own work. Which is how an artist should work. Make it your own. I do like to try and replicate a style I love and I just love what she's done. Because this was such a long process, I'll give you the highlights the best I can or this post would be a mile long. Besides, I'm not sure if I could repeat this if my life depended on it.

First it was cropped, straightened upright (SKRWT) and HDR filter (Snapseed).

In Glaze App I made several versions because I wasn't sure which I'd like best. I actually used these two in my layered project in Leonardo.

These were produced in Color Sketch (also available for Android) with the Glazed versions. These were also layered with the 'original' in Leonardo with different blend modes.

At this point I saved a version to my Camera Roll and took it into Repix to start messing up the foreground and smoothing out the sky a bit. 

I also used Stackables to add a touch of texture back into the photo.

From here on I did my layering in Superimpose. I added 'circles' from a Percolator version. and windows from another photo. 

I overlaid a Google map I had taken a screen shot of and erased parts. 

Last, I saved to Camera Roll once more and opened it in Sketchclub. I scribbled on a new layer and saved it as a png file so I could manipulate it more. (Perhaps I could have done it in Sketch Club but I'm not familiar enough with it.) At one point I also overlaid a black and white sketch layer (outline) set at color burn to bring out the lines in the house a bit more (from iColorama).

I'm definitely drawn to colorful painterly images but you won't find many in any of my galleries. I find it interesting that a lot of what I'm drawn to I rarely 'produce'. This gives me something to think about… How about you?

Linking up with Barb for App Happy Wednesday.

Mobile Art Monday No. 5

We've been out of town, taking care of family business so this post is a little late.

I submitted this edit for the Artistry Flair/Stackables competition just one day before it closed. I was actually trying to do some mindless art because I had just spent three days working on a colorful artsy house photo that nearly made me pull my hair out. Anyway, I was lucky enough to be chosen as a runner up with some very talented artists. It was quite an honor. My finished piece...

Here's a bit of a walk through…

I used one of my saved formulas on photo 2 I call Lavender. (because I had used it on a lavender photo)

iColorama sketch edit.

I really think the writing added a lot to this piece and I love the aqua tones. My hubby even liked it. I think he was more pleased that I did something 'meaningful'.

I used my saved formula on another house but it didn't work as well. This one I also added a sketch layer over the top because it nearly disappeared. (and some Percolator circles in the sky) I hope to tweak this formula and submit it to Stackables. Maybe you'll see it in the future in your app. Now that would be so cool.

I almost want to apologize for using Stackables so much, but this app is truly wonderful and right now for what I've been shooting, it's perfect. What type of mobile art have you been working on lately?

I'm linking up with Barb for App Happy Wednesday!